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Patients Undergoing Tonsillectomy Shows No Change of Taste

...akened by disease or medications. Accidental nerve damage during some medical procedures, including radiation treatment, middle ear surgery, dental or oral surgery or tonsillectomy, also can cause taste dysfunction. Christian A. Mueller, M.D., of the University of Vienna, Austria, and colleagues asked 65 t...

Less Information on Dietary Treatment in Type2 Diabetes

...n their blood. This high sugar content then causes damage to blood vessels, which in turn harms many organs including the eyes, nerves, kidneys and heart. When people are first diagnosed with this disease they are given dietary advice in the hope that this will enable them to take more control over the lev...

Sideeffects of Rosiglitazone in Type2 Diabetes Patients

...igh levels of blood-glucose can cause considerable damage especially to the eyes, nerves and kidneys. Rosiglitazone is one of a range of drugs that increase cells sensitivity to insulin and therefore may restore some of the normal function. Unfortunately, the published studies where people have taken ros...

Sensible Diet, Exercise and Weight Control Increases Longevity

...se, an antioxidant enzyme that protects cells from damage by highly reactive chemicals called free radicals. Our findings put a mechanism behind what your mother told when you were growing upeat a good diet and exercise, and it will keep you healthy, said White. Diet, exercise and lower weight keep yo...

Ukrainian Town Under A Canopy Of Toxic Skies

...sius (104 degrees Fahrenheit), and can cause liver damage if ingested. About 50 million tons of cargo - 70 percent of which include dangerous substances like chlorine, nitrogen, ammonia and petroleum products - are transported by rail through Ukraine annually. This chemical blaze and health threat is sendi...

Nigeria Files New Lawsuit Against Pfizer

...ed side effects such as deafness, paralysis, brain damage and blindness. Pfizer denies the charges. No date has been set for the hearings to commence. Authorities in Kano, Nigeria's largest state, are seeking 2.75 billion dollars in a separate suit. A hearing in that case is due on October 3. The gove...

Hip and Knee Replacements Becoming More Patient-friendly

...ng. This means that potentially there will be less damage to the tissue around the knee. Using the current techniques, 90 percent to 95 percent of knee joint replacements should last 15 years or longer." Dr. Randle adds. "Sophisticated technology including computer navigation and imaging, coupled with rob...

Purdue Pharma Agrees to Pay $600 Million Fine for Misbranding Oxycontin

... sales and the problems caused by the drug. The damage to the public from these white-collared drug pushers surely exceeds the collective damage done by traditional street drug pushers, Dr. Sidney Wolfe, the director of the health research group...

Drink-drivers Not Influenced by Ads Unless It Affects Them Personally

...at a minimum penalty of a one-year driving ban can damage an individuals own life. The authorities have began a television advertising campaign focused on young men who are more than 10 times as likely to have a drink-drive crash than men aged over 30. But these public service announcements do not use any...

World Epilepsy Week - 2007

...s that cause epilepsy result in giftedness. If you damage an area [of the brain] early enough in life, the corresponding area on the other side has a chance to overdevelop." According to Dr. Bear:A temporal lobe focus in the superior individual may spark an extraordinary search for that entity we alterna...

Lead Scare Causes Thomas to Derail

...ning difficulties. Once that happens, irreversible damage can occur, she said. She said symptoms of lead exposure can include loss of appetite, sluggishness and vomiting. A simple blood test for lead can be done on children as young as 6 months, and she said parents should contact their pediatrician or th...

Four Organ Transplants Dont Help, Canadian Teenager Dies

...ssels in his bowels would not only bleed, but also damage his other organs.His father Bill said Sunday the 1...rmation in the bowel that would bleed out, causing damage to his stomach and liver. On Aug.1, 2006, he received a new liver, pancreas, stomach and bowel durin...

US Astronauts Successfully Complete Fourth Space Walk

...least two days after an inspection revealed slight damage to its thermal blanket. In 2003 similar heat shield damage led to the disintegration of the Columbia shuttle, which resulted in the death of seven astronauts o...

Twin Brother may Reduce Sister's Fertility by 25 Percent

...e shown evidence that testosterone may potentially damage female fertility. They, however, admitted that more research was needed to look at this mechanism in humans. "There is some evidence to support this observation. Exposure to testosterone in the womb in sheep recreates a similar syndrome to a condi...

Nanoparticle in the Treatment of Glaucoma

...e the eye, which, if left untreated, can result in damage to the optic nerve and vision loss. High pressure occurs, in part, because of a buildup of carbon dioxide inside the eye, and the compound blocks the enzyme that produces carbon dioxide. Seal and a team of collaborators including Sanku Mallik, of N...

Animal Research Uncovers Another Mechanism of Cholesterol Lowering Drug

...testine, resulting in severe abdominal pain, liver damage and nutrient malabsorption. The fact that Zetia works in two locations is positive because it makes it more effective as a cholesterol-lowering drug, said Temel. But our research suggests the potential for having too much cholesterol in the bile, w...

Genetic Variations Leads to Fever After Smallpox Vaccination

...d by the IL-1 and IL-18 genes are linked to tissue damage in viral myocarditis, raising the question of whether a more severe complication of smallpox vaccination might be associated with variations in these genes. Stanley hopes further studies will delineate whether genetic alterations linked to fever al...

Parkinsons Disease Protein Pathway Identified

...xygen and generate energy. Oxidative stress is the damage caused to cells by reactive oxygen produced during oxygen metabolism. Although cells have mechanisms in place to protect against oxidative damage, this system can break down in the face of environmental challenges or genetic mutations. The Emory ...

Autism Case Hearing Still to Produce Clinching Evidence on Vaccine Linkage

...using a severe inflammation that resulted in brain damage and other injuries. Aposhian, who has more than ...sed his theory of thimerosal-induced immunological damage "three or four weeks ago." When government attorney Vincent Matanoski tried to get Aposhian to ackno...

Special Backpacks Provide Much Needed Relief for Cancer Patients

...into me for my chemotherapy are so toxic and could damage my kidneys. "So I wear my backpack during the day and when I sleep I put it on the bedside next to me. "In the circumstances, it is the nearest that I can get to a normal life. "It has enabled me to have a lot of freedom and when I have the energy ...

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